As it is the nature of a kite to devour little birds, so it is the nature of some minds to insult and tyrannize over little people; this being the me….

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil..

Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neglect it, we are not to wonder if the world is deficient….

Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as ….

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love..

Life may as properly be called an art as any other..

Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices….

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be ….

Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, an….

Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have c….

When the effects of female jealousy do not appear openly in their proper colours of rage and fury, we may suspect that mischievous passion to be at w….

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others..

As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way, the biograph….

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man..

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendation….

When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good.….

Dignity and love were never yet boon companions..

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart..

Wicked companions invite us to hell..

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow..

Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him; yet, inflexible and hon….